Relapsing polychondritis is a multisystem disorder affecting cartilaginous structures like ear, nose, laryngotracheal tree and proteogylcan rich structures like eyes. Kidney involvement has also been reported in the absence of associated conditions like SLE and vasculitides but parenchymal lung involvement has not been reported in the English literature. One such case of relapsing polychondriti...

A 22-year-old female patient with severe hypertension underwent both Technetium-99m diethylenetriaminepentaacetate and Technetium-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine basal and captopril renal scintigraphy. While no significant change was seen with Tc-99m DTPA, there was left sided parenchymal retention of captopril Tc-99m MAG3 suggesting renal artery stenosis which was confirmed by angiography.

A 46-year-old man presented with a 1-month history of fever. He had undergone peritoneal dialysis for 7 years to treat endstage renal disease and underwent renal transplantation in 2006. For 10 days, he presented with minimal scrotal swelling and discomfort. Ultrasonography showed that both testes were normal in size and had normal echogenicity, but the right epididymis was enlarged, showing mo...

Renal parenchymal hypoxia, documented under a variety of clinical conditions, conceivably contributes to the progression chronic kidney disease. In this review, normal physiologic medullary hypoxia and abnormal profiles of renal pO(2) in chronic kidney diseases are presented, and the mechanisms leading to anomalous renal tissue oxygenation are discussed. Direct measurements of pO(2) with oxygen...

Renal hypertension is due to or associated with congenital, inherited or acquired forms of renal disease. The commonest cause is some form of parenchymal disease with reflux nephropathy and the chronic glomerulopathies being the most important categories. Renovascular disease, although only constituting 10% of secondary hypertension in childhood, is important in view of its potential for cure b...

BACKGROUND Renal biopsy remains the means by which definitive parenchymal kidney disease diagnoses are made. With the renal biopsy, the activity, progression and prognosis of renal parenchymal diseases can be studied with objectivity. We investigated the trend of renal histopathology request in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria over 31 years. OBJECTIVE To determine the trend of renal biopsy requ...

OBJECTIVE In our study, the functional prognosis of kidneys with prenatal urinomas were investigated. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2006 and 2010, fetal urinomas were detected in 19 fetuses using prenatal ultrasonography (US), and the medical records were reviewed retrospectively. Of the 19 cases, the follow-up data were available for 10 fetuses. The gestational age at diagnosis, prognosis of ...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most commonly diagnosed bacterial infections of child‐ hood, and have a significant healthcare impact. Renal parenchymal infection and scarring are well-established complications of UTI in children and can lead to renal insufficiency, hy‐ pertension and renal failure. Although frequently encountered and well researched, diagno‐ sis and management of UTI cont...